This table displays the selected game’s current values on four BGG outcomes (UsersRated, Average, GeekRating, Weight) along with my predictive model(s) estimated values for where these games are likely to end up.
Published | ID | Name | Type | UserRatings | Average | GeekRating | Weight |
2022 | Current | 435 | 7.83 | 5.87 | 2.64 | ||
Estimated | 3,600 | 8.03 | 7.19 | 2.59 |
To see more information about the game on boardgamegeek, click on the game’s ID or Name to go straight to the game’s profile page.
Description |
Ten years have passed since the Lightbringers drove back the hordes of the Darkness and sealed the Portal from whence they came. The heroes thought their job done, but the newfound peace was never meant to last. Dangerous new Portals have suddenly opened up all across the land. The Darkness and its hordes are flooding through, stronger than ever. It will not be enough to simply close the Portals this time. The Lightbringers must travel through them into the unknown to destroy the Darkness once and for all. Either Light will triumph, or the Darkness will consume every being in the world. This is where players find themselves in Massive Darkness 2, a new edition of the hit dungeon-crawler game. |
Information on the game’s designers, artists, families, mechanics and categories from BGG.
Published | ID | Name | Publisher(s) | Designer(s) | Artist(s) | Categories | Families | Mechanics |
2022 | CMON Global Limited | Alex Olteanu | Édouard Guiton | Adventure | Category: Dungeon Crawler | Action Points | ||
Asmodee | Marco Portugal | Exploration | Components: Dice with Icons | Cooperative Game | ||||
BoardM Factory | Fantasy | Creatures: Demons | Dice Rolling | |||||
Delta Vision Publishing | Fighting | Creatures: Monsters | Modular Board | |||||
Geekach Games | Miniatures | Crowdfunding: Kickstarter | Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game | |||||
Guillotine Games | Game: Massive Darkness | Solo / Solitaire Game | ||||||
Portal Games | Players: Games with Solitaire Rules | Variable Player Powers | ||||||
Theme: Hell | ||||||||
For the full profile of the selected game, click on the links in the table or go to https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/315610
For each of the predictions above, I used models that were trained on historical boardgamegeek data in order to predict the selected game. How did the model(s) arrive at their predictions? The following plot displays Shapley values to indicate what features were most influential for the model’s predictions. Anything in blue increased the model’s predictions, anything in red decreased the model’s predictions.
What games are similar to Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape? I compare the selected game to every other game on boardgamegeek based on its mechanics, playing time, complexity, and game type. The tables below display the games which had the most similar data to Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape. The reported similarity is the cosine similarity between the selected game and all other games published before 2021.
This similarity score ranges from -1 to 1, where similarity of 1 indicates that games are exactly identical (a game will have a score of 1 with itself).
Note: This analysis does not look at a game’s ratings on BGG, publisher, artist, or designer - it focuses on finding similar games based on how they play, not how they are rated or by their theme.
The table below displays games with the most similar data to Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape. Click on a game’s ID or Name to go straight to its profile on boardgamegeek.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2022 | 1.00 | 5.87 | 7.83 | 2.59 | 435 | ||
1 | 2019 | 0.97 | 6.63 | 7.87 | 2.39 | 1,996 | ||
2 | 2018 | 0.96 | 6.84 | 7.75 | 2.50 | 3,476 | ||
3 | 2019 | 0.94 | 7.48 | 8.14 | 2.40 | 6,585 | ||
4 | 2010 | 0.93 | 6.65 | 6.98 | 2.51 | 8,791 | ||
5 | 2011 | 0.93 | 6.73 | 7.23 | 2.58 | 5,939 | ||
6 | 2011 | 0.93 | 6.66 | 7.12 | 2.61 | 6,184 | ||
7 | 2013 | 0.93 | 6.76 | 7.38 | 2.68 | 4,472 | ||
8 | 2012 | 0.92 | 6.87 | 7.13 | 2.54 | 17,585 | ||
9 | 2017 | 0.92 | 5.99 | 7.64 | 2.37 | 644 | ||
10 | 2015 | 0.92 | 6.37 | 7.40 | 2.47 | 1,854 | ||
11 | 2017 | 0.91 | 7.07 | 7.97 | 4.07 | 4,242 | ||
12 | 2008 | 0.91 | 7.12 | 7.30 | 2.90 | 20,253 | ||
13 | 2018 | 0.91 | 5.59 | 6.97 | 1.78 | 199 | ||
14 | 2015 | 0.91 | 7.29 | 7.66 | 2.50 | 14,109 | ||
15 | 2019 | Dungeons & Dragons: Waterdeep – Dungeon of the Mad Mage Board Game | 0.91 | 5.97 | 7.77 | 2.42 | 610 | |
16 | 2019 | 0.90 | 6.96 | 8.80 | 4.02 | 1,868 | ||
17 | 2019 | 0.90 | 5.54 | 8.81 | 2.33 | 62 | ||
18 | 2019 | 0.90 | 6.45 | 7.89 | 2.92 | 1,571 | ||
19 | 2014 | 0.90 | 6.40 | 7.45 | 3.24 | 1,683 | ||
20 | 2020 | 0.89 | 5.55 | 7.02 | 2.00 | 62 | ||
21 | 2015 | 0.89 | 6.61 | 7.54 | 2.49 | 2,593 | ||
22 | 2017 | 0.89 | 5.62 | 7.41 | 2.25 | 165 | ||
23 | 2015 | 0.89 | 5.70 | 6.53 | 2.76 | 443 | ||
24 | 2020 | 0.87 | 5.54 | 7.23 | 2.71 | 79 | ||
25 | 2017 | 0.87 | 5.52 | 6.62 | 2.00 | 58 |
Click on the ID or Name for any game to go its profile page on boardgamegeek.
What games are similar to Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape while also being highly rated by the boardgamegeek community? In this table I multiply every neighboring game’s similarity score by its GeekRating. The resulting score is an attempt to balance these two quantities.
Rank | Published | ID | Name | Score | Similarity | GeekRating | Average | Weight | UserRatings |
-- | 2022 | 5.87 | 1.00 | 5.87 | 7.83 | 2.59 | 435 | ||
1 | 2019 | 7.00 | 0.94 | 7.48 | 8.14 | 2.40 | 6,585 | ||
2 | 2015 | 6.62 | 0.91 | 7.29 | 7.66 | 2.50 | 14,109 | ||
3 | 2018 | 6.56 | 0.96 | 6.84 | 7.75 | 2.50 | 3,476 | ||
4 | 2016 | 6.51 | 0.84 | 7.77 | 8.01 | 2.67 | 29,837 | ||
5 | 2008 | 6.50 | 0.91 | 7.12 | 7.30 | 2.90 | 20,253 | ||
6 | 2017 | 6.46 | 0.91 | 7.07 | 7.97 | 4.07 | 4,242 | ||
7 | 2019 | 6.41 | 0.97 | 6.63 | 7.87 | 2.39 | 1,996 | ||
8 | 2019 | 6.35 | 0.84 | 7.54 | 7.99 | 2.60 | 12,158 | ||
9 | 2012 | 6.34 | 0.92 | 6.87 | 7.13 | 2.54 | 17,585 | ||
10 | 2019 | 6.28 | 0.90 | 6.96 | 8.80 | 4.02 | 1,868 | ||
11 | 2011 | 6.26 | 0.93 | 6.73 | 7.23 | 2.58 | 5,939 | ||
12 | 2013 | 6.25 | 0.93 | 6.76 | 7.38 | 2.68 | 4,472 | ||
13 | 2011 | 6.19 | 0.93 | 6.66 | 7.12 | 2.61 | 6,184 | ||
14 | 2010 | 6.18 | 0.93 | 6.65 | 6.98 | 2.51 | 8,791 | ||
15 | 2016 | 6.06 | 0.76 | 7.93 | 8.16 | 3.49 | 34,915 | ||
16 | 2012 | 6.06 | 0.82 | 7.40 | 7.66 | 3.21 | 23,953 | ||
17 | 2013 | 5.95 | 0.79 | 7.54 | 7.78 | 3.32 | 32,251 | ||
18 | 2015 | 5.86 | 0.92 | 6.37 | 7.40 | 2.47 | 1,854 | ||
19 | 2015 | 5.86 | 0.89 | 6.61 | 7.54 | 2.49 | 2,593 | ||
20 | 2014 | 5.80 | 0.83 | 6.98 | 7.96 | 3.35 | 3,629 | ||
21 | 2019 | 5.77 | 0.90 | 6.45 | 7.89 | 2.92 | 1,571 | ||
22 | 2014 | 5.73 | 0.90 | 6.40 | 7.45 | 3.24 | 1,683 | ||
23 | 2011 | 5.73 | 0.84 | 6.81 | 6.97 | 2.35 | 23,535 | ||
24 | 2010 | 5.72 | 0.84 | 6.81 | 7.29 | 2.72 | 5,320 | ||
25 | 2019 | 5.68 | 0.77 | 7.38 | 7.76 | 2.04 | 10,785 |
I first ran a dimension reduction method (PCA) to identify the main points of variation for games on BGG. The first 25 components explained roughly 50% of the overall variation in the dataset, so I computed the cosine similarity between every game’s score on these 25 components.
This plotscores are based on 25 principal components - the next table displays the selected game and its neighbors profiles on each of these components.
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